Re: Using FreeBSD as a router
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: It's time to upgrade my old Cisco 10Mbps router and I am seriously considering using FreeBSD. I have found some solutions and wonder what one would recommend here on the list... Solution 1: http://tomclegg.net/256-router Solution 2: http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php I want to duplicate my Cisco setup. It has 4 Ethernet ports with the WAN subnet assigned to the WAN port and 3 different subnets assigned to each of the remaining 3 ports leading to their VLANs on the switch. Looking for advise from those who have used the above solutions and their experiences. Thanks in advance! -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monowall is very nice, I have a pentium pro 200 with 256 meg of ram on a 6meg small business circuit with 3 vpn tunnels to remote sites that have a Cisco 831, cisco pix 501, and cisco pix515. The server runs at about 10% average and it took literally about 10 minutes to set all of this up. The problem you may have with monoowall and I need to refresh myself with the documentation again but I believe it only supports 3 network interfaces. If you populate the box with Intel pro 1000 gigabit network cards they do support vlan tagging though. Good luck and let us know what you might end up with. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using FreeBSD as a router
Robert Fitzpatrick skrev: It's time to upgrade my old Cisco 10Mbps router and I am seriously considering using FreeBSD. I have found some solutions and wonder what one would recommend here on the list... Solution 1: http://tomclegg.net/256-router Solution 2: http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php pfSense is also very nice! http://www.pfsense.com/ /Henrik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using FreeBSD as a router
You can easily do the Freebsd firewall just by following the FBSD handbook or go to http://mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ and look at the article on Setting up a network gateway -- Brent Bailey CCNA Bmyster LLC Computer Networking and Webhosting Network Sytems Engineer, President [EMAIL PROTECTED] --RIP Brother Dime-- -- Original Message --- From: Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:11:32 -0400 Subject: Using FreeBSD as a router It's time to upgrade my old Cisco 10Mbps router and I am seriously considering using FreeBSD. I have found some solutions and wonder what one would recommend here on the list... Solution 1: http://tomclegg.net/256-router Solution 2: http://m0n0.ch/wall/index.php I want to duplicate my Cisco setup. It has 4 Ethernet ports with the WAN subnet assigned to the WAN port and 3 different subnets assigned to each of the remaining 3 ports leading to their VLANs on the switch. Looking for advise from those who have used the above solutions and their experiences. Thanks in advance! -- Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- End of Original Message --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using freebsd for a router
JD Bronson wrote: I dont want to start a flame/war here...but was *just* wondering... I currently use OpenBSD-3.8 for my router (T-1 with many statics) and then use FreeBSD-6.0 for my servers (web/mail/DNS...) I am debating on just standardizing to all FreeBSD. It seems the security is quite the same - but I dont know about performance pros/cons. It seems that the 'pf' that comes with FreeBSD 6.0 is equal to that within OBSD 3.8. So all things considered - is there any advantage to using FreeBSD for a router or just keeping things the way they are? Thanks for any comments or flames (I suppose). -JD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] As a freebsd advocate, my first reponse is yes - go for it. T1 speeds not that huge to be routing anyhow, so performance really shouldn't be the key issue as stability and security... ah, now there's where I like OpenBSD. FreeBSD afaik will perform just as well in your situation (assuming nothing out of the ordinary), but just be sure to disable at startup any and all services you don't want/require (ie: sendmail). That's one thing I do like about OpenBSD, default install doesn't startup things like that, they're disabled by default from the get-go. Not to start any flames of my own, know one can do a custom install and have the same result with FreeBSD - just pointing out the 'simple' default install does enable things you'll probably want to disable if just using the machine as a router and/or packet filter/firewall. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsor Match Plate Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using freebsd for a router
At 09:01 AM 11/24/2005, Nathan Vidican wrote: Not to start any flames of my own, know one can do a custom install and have the same result with FreeBSD - just pointing out the 'simple' default install does enable things you'll probably want to disable if just using the machine as a router and/or packet filter/firewall. Thanks for the comments. Yes, I always disable anything not absolutely needed on a router. Also, there are no other accounts on the machine but mine and root. :-) -JD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using freebsd for a router
JD Bronson wrote: I dont want to start a flame/war here...but was *just* wondering... I currently use OpenBSD-3.8 for my router (T-1 with many statics) and then use FreeBSD-6.0 for my servers (web/mail/DNS...) I am debating on just standardizing to all FreeBSD. It seems the security is quite the same - but I dont know about performance pros/cons. It seems that the 'pf' that comes with FreeBSD 6.0 is equal to that within OBSD 3.8. So all things considered - is there any advantage to using FreeBSD for a router or just keeping things the way they are? Thanks for any comments or flames (I suppose). -JD If you want to push a serious amount of traffic though FreeBSD as router I recommend you use polling, after doing benchmarks I found polling helped push through many magnitudes more data when going past the 100mbit/sec point. Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
